Miami's Cubans are celebrating "the symbolic death of the destructive ideologies" Cuban dictator Fidel Castro championed, Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan said Saturday, and she believes positive change is on its way.
"Although the grip of Castro's regime will not loosen overnight, the demise of a leader that oversaw the annihilation of those with an opposing view . . . can only lead to positive change for the Cuban people," Estefan, who was born in Havana, wrote on her Instagram page.
In her post, accompanied by a photograph of several Cuban exiles aboard a boat in the ocean, Estefan said a human being's death is not often cause for people to celebrate, but Castro's death is "filling the Cuban exile community with renewed hope and a relief that has been long in coming."
The singer also said Castro was to blame for the separation of families, blocking freedom of speech from his countrymen, the indiscriminate jailing of innocent people, the state sanction of terrorism, and for destroying the once-thriving Cuba economically.
"May freedom continue to ring in the United States, my beautiful adopted country, and may the hope for freedom be inspired and renewed in the heart of every Cuban in my homeland and throughout the world," she concluded in her post.
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